1st Mid Semester Exam Practice Topic 1 (SETS)
Grade 9 – AY 2023 - 2024
Name: Class: 9
1. Which of the following are well-defined sets?
(a) The collection of first five natural numbers.
(b) The collection of the most talented boys in
your school.
(c) The collection of the most dangerous
animals which are found in the forest.
(d) The collection of vowels of the English
Alphabet.
(e) The collection of whole numbers between
20 and 25.
(f) Collection of the best musicians in the
world.
(g) The collection of natural numbers between
30 and 35.
(h) The collection of letters that are there in
the word "MANGO".
(i) The collection of the best football players
in the world.
2. Which of the following are the examples of an
empty set?
(a) The set of even natural numbers divisible
by 3.
(b) The set of all prime numbers divisible by 2.
(c) {x : x ∈ N, 5 < x < 6}
(d) The set of odd natural numbers divisible by
2.
(e) P = {x : x is a prime number, 54 < x < 58} Q
= {x : x = 2n + 3, n ∈ positive integer, n ≤ 5}
3. Classify the following as finite and infinite sets.
(a) The set of days in a week
Date:
(b) A = {x : x ∈ N, x > 1}
(c) B = {x : x is an even prime number}
(d) D = {x : x is a factor of 30}
(e) P = {x : x ∈ Z, x < -1}
4. Are the following pairs of sets equal?
(a) A = {2} _____B = {x : x ∈ N, x is an even
prime number}.
(b) P = {1, 4, 9} _____ Q = {x : x = n2, n ∈ N, n
≤ 3)
(c) X = {x : x ∈ W, x < 5} _____ Y = {x : x ∈ N, x
≤ 5}
(d) M = {a, b, c, d}_____ N = {p, q, r, s}
(e) D = {x : x is a multiple of 30}_____ E = {x : x
is a factor of 10}
5. Which of the following are equivalent sets?
(a) A = {1, 2, 3}_____ B = {4, 5}
(b) P = {q, s, m}_____ Q = {6, 9, 12}
(c) X = {x : x is a prime number less than
10}_____ Y = {x : x ∈ N, x ≤ 4}
(d) R = {x : x = 2n + 3, n < 4, n ∈ N}_____ S = {x
: x = n/(n + 1), n ∈ R, n ≤ 4}
(e) The set of vowels in the English alphabet
_____The set of consonants in the English
alphabet
6. Find the cardinal number of the following sets
(a) A = {x : x ∈ I, 2 < x < 7}
(b) B = {x : n ∈ N, x = n2, n < 3}
(c) The set of months in a year
(d) C = {x : x ∈ Z+, x < 100}
(e) D = {x : x = n3, n ∈ Z+, n < 5}
 (f) The set of letters in the word Multiple Choice Questions
MALAYALAM 10. If 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 = ∅, which of the statement below is
true?
7. Let A = {Natural numbers less than 8} (a) A=B (c) A is proper subset of B
B = {Even natural numbers less than 12}
(b) B ≠ A (d) None of these
C = {multiples of 3 between 5 and 15}
D = { multiples of 4 greater than 6 and less than
11. 𝐴! ∩ 𝐵! is equal to ….
20}
Find:
(a) 𝐵 − 𝐴 (c) A=B

(a) (B ∩ D) B ∪ C
(b) 𝐴 − 𝐵 (d) None of these
(b) A∪D
(c) C∪D 12. A set has n elements, then the total number of
(d) A∩C subsets are ….
(e) (B ∩ C) ∪ A (a) 2" (c) 2#"
(f) (D∪A)∩B (b) 2"$% (d) None of these
(g) (A ∩ C) ∪
(h) (B ∪ D) ∩ (C ∪ A)
13. A set has n elements, then the total number of
proper subsets are ….
8. If A= {5, 7, 8, 9}
B = { 3, 4, 5, 6}
(a) 2" (c) 2#"

C = {2, 4, 6, 8, 10}; (b) 2"$% (d) none of these

Where n is total number of distinct elements in a
set. Find: 14. The sets A and B have 6 and 9 elements
(a) n(A) + n(B) respectively, such that A is proper subset B , then
(b) n(A ∪ B) the total number of elements 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 are
(c) n(A ∩ B) (a) 6 (c) 3
(d) n(A ∪ B) + n(A ∩ B) (b) 9 (d) 15
(e) n(B) + n(C) – n(B ∩ C)
(f) Is n(A) + n(B) = n(A ∪ B) + n(A ∩ B)? 15. The sets A& B have 5 & 9 elements respectively,
(g) Is n(B ∪ C) = n(B) + n(C) - n(B ∩ C)? such that A is proper subset B , then the total
number of elements A ∪ B are
9. Find the cardinal number of the following sets:
(a) 5 (c) 14
(a) { }
(b) 9 (d) 4
(b) {0}
(c) {3, 7, 11, 15}
16. If A and B are two sets such that n(A) = 15, n(B) =
(d) {3, 3, 3, 4, 4,5} 21, and n(𝐴 ∪ 𝐵) = 36, then n(𝐴 ∩ 𝐵) = ….
(e) {x : x is a letter in the word ‘STATISTICS’}
(a) 2 (c) 4
(f) {x : x is an odd whole number less than 12}
(b) 0 (d)15
(g) {x : x ∈ N and x2 < 50}
(h) {x : x is a factor of 12}
17. If P and Q are two sets such that 𝑃 ∪ 𝑄 has 20 20. Observe the Venn diagram below and list the
elements , P has 9 elements & Q has 16 elements . members of the set:
How many elements does 𝑃 ∩ 𝑄 have ?
(a) S
(a) 5 (c) 3
(b) A
(b) 4 (d) 0
(c) B
18. In a Group of 300 people , 150 can speak French & (d) C
200 can speak German. How many can speak both (e) A⋂B
French & German. (f) A⋂C
(a) 40 (c) 20
(g) B⋂C
(b) 50 (d) None of these
(h) (A ⋂ B) ⋂ C

19. In a group of 72 students , 47 have background is (i) A ⋂ (B ⋂ C)

electronics , 59 have background in Mathematics &
42 have background in both the subjects. How 21. Sketch the shaded region.
many subjects do not have background in any of
(a) 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵′
the subjects
(b) 𝐴′ ∩ 𝐵′
(a) 8 (c) 25
(b) 13 (d) 34 (c) 𝐴′ ∪ 𝐵
(d) 𝐴 ∪ 𝐵′
(e) (𝐴 ∩ 𝐵) ′

22. Sketch the shaded region

(a) 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵′ ∪ 𝐶
(b) 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 ∪ 𝐶′
(c) 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵′ ∩ 𝐶
(d) 𝐴 ∩ 𝐵 ∩ 𝐶′
(e) 𝐴 ∪ 𝐵 ∪ 𝐶′
(f) 𝐴′ ∪ 𝐵 ∪ 𝐶
(g) (𝐵 ∩ 𝐶) ′ ∪ 𝐴
(h) (𝐴 ∩ 𝐵) ′ ∪ C